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One might interpret it as a resignation.
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Is this an explicit disavowal his oath of office? Would that make him no longer president? Could the courts find as such?
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Looking at Google maps, utility bikes or ebikes seem like they could be a viable option for many residents of this town. A $2000 ebike would be way more reliable than a $2000 car. Or maybe they could be loaners for cars in the shop so people don't lose their jobs.
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His MO to avoid accountability: find a lawyer that will tell him what he wants to hear and throw the lawyer under the bus when trouble comes.
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I'd rather the law be restored so that naturalization is not revocable or not revocable.
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"All persons born or naturalized in the United States..."
constitution.congress.gov/constitution...
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Normalizing revoking citizenship with such a high profile case is a dangerous path. Bad actors will try to weaponize the precedent. If there's evidence of other crimes it's better to lock him up.
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Trump's words are meaningless by design. The incoherence is the point. They mean nothing and everything at the same time. They are an ink blot that the voter imagines is exactly what he wants. When in trouble they mean what Trump declares them to mean: a joke or a mandate granted by voters.
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I agree. Return to US depends on mom's consent.
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Seems like an opportunity for a member of Congress to visit Honduras, help the little girl get her US passport, and bring her back.
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This was written by Tim Snyder, the historian who wrote On Tyranny after the 2016 election. "Don't obey in advance" and 19 other lessons. He saw it coming. When he says "we" I think he means the collective we: America and American institutions.
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He's being a politician. He picked the issue that he thinks will give him the broadest support a future election.
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Could contempt fines fund something like a special prosecutor and an army of lawyers (ex DOJ) and investigators (ex FBI) tasked with the responsibility of determining why the government isn't complying with court orders and who should be locked up?
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"I would get that ended in a period of 24 hours". Promises made, promises kept.
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I was thinking these rules might be worse for their side but fear the true intent is to introduce complex rules to create pretexts for contesting elections that don't go their way.
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VP and cabinet are loyal to Trump.
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*veto override
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Would impeach and convict be more likely than veto? Fewer votes in house, same in Senate. If enough Republicans are going to defy Trump why would they go half way?
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My guess is the administration will make a formal request for his release and bukele will have a pretext for not releasing and that will be it. Bukele knows who his customer is
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The article suggests that there may be an established procedure that applies to this situation. If that is true and the court is aware of it I imagine the court would require the procedure be followed and be satisfied if it was.
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www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
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Step 1: Make America shitty.
Step 2: Make America great again.
I don't think they're going to get past step 1.
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Congress did something in response to the banking crisis and the pandemic. Is there hope this time?
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For international forgiveness Congress would need to quickly elect the right person as speaker of the house and impeach, convict, and remove POTUS, VP, and cabinet. That would send a clear message that our system still works.
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It seems like a company that would turn a few planes around at the request of its biggest customer.
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I had assumed he was one of the Venezuelans, but it appears that is not the case.
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They got Gulag Barbie in to do her TicTok. They should be able to get this guy out. Their position seems to be "We won't do it and you can't make us."
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My subtle point was that standing up for trans people is standing up for everyone. And to your point there are many others they are already going after.
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First they went after the trans people...
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Thanks for taking this position. I understand the anger but am very concerned that toxicity towards anyone who voted for trump for any reason feeds division and as a result fuels the authoritarians.
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Correct. Kicking people while their faces are being eaten by leapords is not a good strategy for the party of chasing away face eating leapords.
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By this definition the whole administration should be deported.
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By empathy I mean seeing the human being or at least hoping that there's a human in there somewhere. And trying to feel what that human may be feeling. If we can't do that for 40 percent of the population then we, the people, have been divided and will be conquered.
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I want to believe there are more of the folks that fell for a sales pitch than Nazis.
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I think we need to be open to those that may be open to reconsidering their position. If greeted with hostility they'll quickly go back to what they know. If I read the responses to these articles through the eyes of a trump voter who is having doubts I see a lot of hostility.
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We feel betrayed by Trump voters for the situation in which they put the county. But if this country is to be saved we need to move past those feelings. We need to win over the Trump voters that are feeling the impacts of Trump. We need empathy and less "I told you so".
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I'd think every plaintiff in every lawsuit against the administration would be asking for an order to preserve comms from Signal and any other app with messaging features.
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If is my withholdings they're going to redirect, yes. I want the court to tell the IRS they can't come after me for that money.
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I wonder if there's a legal way to do this... If fed govt fails to pay states what is due to the states by law, can states get a court order that lets them redirect federal tax withholdings to affected programs.
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Regime security trumps national security.
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Plaintiffs attorneys and judges should be asking these questions too.
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I'm not a lawyer but it seems like @aclu and other plaintiffs should fight for preservation and discovery of data on personal devices and in messaging accounts of top administration officials in the many cases pending against the administration.
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Bakersfield video www.youtube.com/live/ZvVGYXy...
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www.youtube.com/live/ZvVGYXy...
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After Trump 45 impeachment seems counterproductive unless and until they can line up the votes in the Senate to convict. I hope those conversations are happening behind the scenes.
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Whether he regrets his vote or not, if he's going to talk publicly this is what is most likely to get his wife released.